Artist-Led Cultural Patronage

DARKSIDEExecutive Producer

Support the next chapter of TK's creative universe through artist-first patronage, attribution, and direct participation in the DARKSIDE rollout.

DARKSIDE is part of TK's larger creative universe, spanning music, visual worldbuilding, fashion, performance, and community. This page exists to invite aligned supporters into the process as Executive Producers, helping fund the work as a contribution to culture, while receiving meaningful attribution.

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DARKSIDE merch and visual world

Executive Producer Options

Choose the level of participation that aligns with your support.

Merch Drop Executive Producer

$5,000

Support the DARKSIDE merch drop directly by funding manufacturing of DARKSIDE merch items.

Includes

  • Executive Producer credit on the merch campaign page
  • Signed DARKSIDE merch package
  • Private behind-the-scenes updates
  • Handwritten custom Villain Origin Story, by TK
  • Optional invite to select DARKSIDE merch-related moments
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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Villain Origin Story Executive Producer

$7,500

Support a season of the Villain Origin Stories podcast (12 episodes).

Includes

  • Executive Producer credit on the episode or video
  • Credit in YouTube description, social posts, and archive
  • Get interviewed on an episode
  • Early access to the edit
  • Behind-the-scenes stills or notes
  • Optional private call about the concept
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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DARKSIDE Music Video Executive Producer

$15,000

Support the production of a DARKSIDE music video, from concept through final edit.

Includes

  • Executive Producer credit on the music video
  • Credit in the YouTube description, social posts, and archive
  • Private first look at the edit before release
  • Behind-the-scenes stills and notes from the shoot
  • Optional invite to the video shoot or screening
  • Limited collector asset connected to the release
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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DARKSIDE Chapter Executive Producer

$25,000

Support a full creative chapter, such as a lookbook, deluxe release, live content arc, or major visual campaign.

Includes

  • Chapter-level Executive Producer credit
  • Private creative briefing
  • Early access to assets
  • Invitation to select shoots, screenings, or listening sessions
  • Signed physical or digital archive package
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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Season Patron

$50,000

Support a larger DARKSIDE season across multiple releases, drops, and activations.

Includes

  • Season-level patron credit
  • Private quarterly updates
  • Priority access to major DARKSIDE moments
  • Invitation to private previews and events
  • End-of-season archive package
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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Genesis Level

Genesis Executive Producer

$100,000+

The highest level of cultural patronage, modeled after C.Y.'s original support.

Includes

  • Top-level Executive Producer recognition
  • Long-term attribution across the creative ecosystem
  • Deeper involvement in the patronage model
  • Private strategic briefings
  • Recognition as a foundational supporter of TK's creative universe
  • The full DARKSIDE Genesis collector package — digital album, Album NFT, large-format vinyl, coffee-table lookbook, T-shirt, and CHROME necklace
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TK

The Artist Journey

TK is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and worldbuilder whose work moves across alternative, R&B, hip-hop, rock, punk, pop, and cinematic storytelling. His creative practice has always been larger than one format. Music becomes lore. Lore becomes fashion. Fashion becomes performance. Performance becomes community.

After years of building independently, Web3 gave TK a direct path to financial and artistic stability. Through onchain music and collector relationships, C.Y. Lee came in as an early believer and became a founding supporter of the work, helping TK fund ambitious creative projects without depending entirely on traditional label systems, gatekeepers, or short-term industry validation.

That support made it possible to keep creating at a serious level. It helped turn ideas into releases, releases into worlds, and worlds into a long-term creative ecosystem.

TK artist portrait
DARKSIDE cast and community

Why This Support Matters

Funding support like this is extremely valuable because it gives ambitious independent work room to breathe. DARKSIDE requires more than songs. It requires visual identity, merch production, content, community building, live experiences, short-form storytelling, documentation, and the time needed to make the work excellent.

Executive Producers help make that possible.

This is not just a transaction. It is a way to support the creation of culture directly, receive visible attribution, and become part of the story behind the work.

Founding Patron

C.Y. Lee

Founding Executive Producer

C.Y. Lee became the first major Executive Producer of TK's creative universe through his support of Eternal Garden and the Executive Pass. His impact has gone beyond funding. C.Y. helped introduce a new model for supporting creative projects through cultural patronage, attribution, and long-term belief.

His role is not simply that of a collector or supporter. He is a major partner in helping build the patronage layer around TK's work. His support represents a contribution to culture, one that helps independent creative worlds grow with the resources, respect, and infrastructure they deserve.

The DARKSIDE Merch Executive Producer model builds from that foundation. C.Y.'s early support opened the door for more aligned patrons to participate in specific chapters of the work.

C.Y. Lee, Founding Executive Producer

Support the Work. Become Part of the Origin Story.

DARKSIDE is being built independently, with the support of people who understand that ambitious creative work needs real resources. Executive Producers help make the work possible while receiving meaningful recognition for their role in bringing it to life.

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